16th December, 2019.
Right: it’s officially done for another year.
“?”
I hear you ask.
I’ve officially done my Christmas cards.
There’s going to be a few lucky people who who end up with CDs, as well.
Including one person who’s going to end up with a copy of New Boots and Panties.
Considering Plaistow Patricia’s on there?
It’s about the only time I’ve had to include an Explicit Content warning with a Christmas card!
~≈†≈~
I have to admit, after all that handwriting?
I told a bit of a break.
I actually ended up playing a game or two on the Apple TV: I’ve got a few.
Including one called Marble it Up: Mayhem.
You have to roll a marble around an obstacle course.
It’s actually a lot more fun than it sounds: especially if you grew up on an old ZX Spectrum game called Spindizzy …
~≈†≈~
Let’s move on, shall we?
Yesterday’s Teaser saw Olga* and Debbi† putting in their answers: with both scoring five out of five.
Let’s see how everyone does with today’s questions, shall we?
Q1) Kazakhstan declared its independence: on 16th December. From where?
Q2) In which year?
Q3) Does Kazakhstan have an ocean coastline?
Q4) Name either one of Kazakhstan’s official languages.
Q5) Finally … ? What’s the name of Kazakhstan’s capital?
Here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 15th December saw the formal opening of the Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway. In which year: 1905, 1906 or 1907?A1) 1906.
Q2) Who was it formally open by: Winston Churchill, H. H. Asquith or David Lloyd George?
Q3) That dignitary? Was then president of the what?
Q4) The line moved to public ownership, when: 1931, 1933 or 1935?A4) 1933.
Q5) Finally … ? The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway was now which line of the underground … ?A5) The Piccadilly line.
Here’s a thought …
“Kazakhstan needs to get ready in order not to miss this moment and to take advantage of the benefits that one or the other situation will bring.”Dr. Agris Preimanis.
And the Kazakh national anthem …
Today’s questions will be answered in tomorrow’s Teaser.
Have a good day.
* High Castle’s worth a watch, Olga. And the finale’s well made, even if I felt it could be better. The first series even manages to stick closely to the original novel: which I although think is a plus. Good luck with the phone operator gig! (My usual phone answering speech is ear worming its way through my head: “My name is Insert Name Here, you’re through to
Insert Company Here, how can we Insert Verb Here?”)
† I don’t think they filmed it, Debbi. But? The
interview gets republished, every so often. Although I don’t know if that’s the one mentioned to in the Wikipedia entry about it!
Q1) The USSR
ReplyDeleteQ2) 1991
Q3) No
Q4) Kazakh
Q5) Nur-Sultan (I always find this cities designed to be the capitals, rather than historically become the capitals, a bit weird, and this one on top of that has had more names than history, it seems).
Oh, useful choice for me. One of my friends adopted a child from Kazakhstan, and although I read something about the place at the time, I can’t say I recalled much about it. (They wanted to adopt a Chinese girl, but it coincided with the time when they closed the borders to adoptions, so it was a long-drawn and heart-wrenching process). The boy is very handsome and loves them to bits (he knows where he comes from) and they get plenty of support, from psychologists, etc, but it is a complicated process, even when all goes well.
The phone thing went pretty OK yesterday. I thought about you as well, and it’s tough work, even when people are kind and it’s for a good cause, like yesterday. The kind of job you used to do… Well, chapeau. I must say that by the end of the stint I was quite tired (and we only did 3 hours, although it was at the busiest time of the day), and with the strong lights my eyes had had enough. It was very noisy as well. We were almost 800 people answering phones at the same time, and even with an earplug for the other year it was buzzing (oh, and there were the cameras, and people coming and going, and the counts…) It seems that at the time of closing the programme, they had collected 9.4 millions of euros, so not bad (people have time to keep donating until the end of March, and many associations and companies had organised events for yesterday as well, so it might be a bit more). It was a nice thing to do and the atmosphere was pretty congenial. One of the callers suffered from one of those Minority illnesses herself, and she was very complimentary. It’s good to see people rallying around and willing to help.
Well done on the cards! (A good soundtrack while writing them sure helps!)
Thank you so much for keeping these short! :)
ReplyDelete1. the Soviet Union
2. 1991
3. no
4. Kazakh and Russian
5. Nur-Sultan